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[Make sure to read Daniel Greenfield’s contributions in Jamie Glazov’s new book: Barack Obama’s True Legacy: How He Transformed America.]
The 2024 Presidential Greatness Project Expert Survey has officially announced its results.
And the survey from the American Political Science Association says that Obama is greater than Eisenhower and JFK, that Bill Clinton was greater than John Adams and Biden is greater than Reagan (not to mention Ulysses S. Grant and James Monroe of the Monroe Doctrine).
Is Biden really the 14th greatest president in American history? Obviously not. But these same “political science experts” also ranked Obama as the 7th greatest president, Bill Clinton as the 12th greatest president and Carter near the upper middle as the 22nd greatest president.
The Presidential Greatness Project Expert Survey reflects the partisan hijacking of American history within academia. The top level of the rankings have been stacked with contemporary Democrats with FDR in 2nd place, Truman in 6th (just behind Thomas Jefferson), Obama in 7th, LBJ in 9th, JFK in 10th, Bill Clinton in 12th, Biden in 14th place and Woodrow Wilson in 15th.
If you believe academia, every single White House Democrat in the last hundred plus years, except Carter, ranks among the top 15 presidents in American history. What are the odds?
Only Clinton, who was impeached, Carter, who was a widely hated one-term president, and Biden, who is as unpopular as Carter, failed to crack the top 10.
This isn’t history, it’s revisionist history so shameless that it would make a Communist blush.
It is also no coincidence that no 20th century Republican who remained in his party cracks the top 10 except Eisenhower, that even Reagan ranks below Biden at 16th, George Bush I falls to 19th, Ford to 27th, slightly above Martin Van Buren, a corrupt and despised Tammany Hall leader (and one of the fathers of the Democratic Party), George Bush II is down in 32nd place, Nixon at 35th and Trump at 45th. Of the pre-New Deal Republicans, Coolidge is at 34th, Harding at 40th, and Hoover at 36th. In these same rankings, Biden is in 16th place.
The rankings represent an attempt at overruling the consensus of the age. Truman was widely unpopular, yet is named the 6th greatest president for little more than remaining at the wheel during the end of WWII, then presiding over the loss of China and near disaster in Korea, while Eisenhower, who was far more popular, takes 8th place after Obama. LBJ, who left office rejected by his party and the country, after disasters on every front, is ranked in 9th place.
But as wrongheaded as those rankings may be, at least Truman and LBJ presided over crucial moments in history and made momentous decisions. One can point to some of their accomplishments, but what did Obama accomplish to honor him as the 7th greatest president?
That is besides the same thing that led to him receiving a Nobel Peace Prize and a Grammy.
And what exactly entitles Bill Clinton to the 12th spot ahead of John Adams, Reagan, Grant, Monroe, Andrew Jackson and other genuinely pivotal figures? Did he fight for America’s independence, defeat Russia, or rebuild the nation after a civil war?
What is Bill Clinton even remembered for except a sex scandal (and assorted financial ones)?
It is bad enough that partisan historians are obsessed with pushing FDR to the top until he replaces Lincoln and, in the current survey, has already displaced George Washington, but they won’t stop until Bill Clinton’s red face is on Mount Rushmore only because of the D after his name.
And there’s Joe Biden, currently outranking Woodrow Wilson who, for all his flaws, presided over the country during WWI and, apart from a brief period when he was in a coma and his wife made the actual decisions, was conscious and able to communicate throughout his presidency.
It’s not just that leftists are bent on tearing down every historical figure, they’re equally determined to replace them with not only radicals, but corrupt and worthless mediocrities.
If William Henry Harrison, who died 31 days after his inauguration due to a bout of especially vigorous handshaking, is to be ranked down at number 41 on account of being incommunicado for most of it, what does that say about Biden? Biden could have only improved on his time in office if he were wholly unable to communicate, instead of only partially able, thereby preventing him from the folly of overseeing multiple economic, political and foreign policy disasters.
But then we must ask ourselves, what is greatness?
The revisionism started with a New Deal rewrite in which all of history began with FDR. Every Republican after Lincoln and Grant was ridiculed and written out of history with an exception made for Teddy Roosevelt whose splinter campaign was deemed to be progressive. Then when the Eisenhower era arrived, the ‘eggheads’ stewed and then with the arrival of JFK, began rewriting history once again.
After the chaos of the JFK and RFK assassinations, and then the frustrating rise of Nixon, the euphoria of his downfall, and the even more frustrating ascension of Reagan, it took some time to reboot history yet again into the form we are seeing again in the latest version of the Presidential Greatness Project Expert Survey. The survey has come a long way since the Schlesinger presidential rankings. and it requires a new definition of greatness.
What makes Bill Clinton, Barack Hussein Obama or Joe Biden great? Nothing outward. A conclave of experts assembled to explain their greatness can only spew gibberish. Both Clinton and Obama briefly touched off a spurt of media erotomania, but the spell quickly passed. And no one even fainted at Biden’s basement campaign rallies or believed that he loved them.
But in the New Deal revisionist history, greatness does not come from presiding over historic events, but in pursuing the leftist program of fundamentally transforming America. So while Biden may not make hearts flutter, like JFK, Obama and Clinton, he’s following the same plan.
Somewhere along the way the definition of greatness changed from making America great to making the Left great. It’s a greatness that is equally accessible to sleazy crooks, anti-colonialist hucksters and a fossilized D.C. hack who barely knows where he is half the time.
Sit down, James Madison (no. 11) and get out of Bill Clinton’s way. Learn your place John Adams (no. 13) and let Biden come on up front. We no longer measure the greatness of presidents by their character and their accomplishments, but by their destructiveness.
The greatest of presidents are now those who have done the most to destroy America.
Whoever came up with this Greatness Project must have head full of Sawdust or Rocks maybe both
It would have been an expert academic who has never done a day’s work in his life and has tenure so they don’t need to ever.
To paraphrase Dennis Prager, if I hear the words “experts say” I expect one of two things, common sense or stupidity.
Usually the latter
Yes. When lefties use the word “expert” they should use “full of shit.”
That has got to the keading paddle a s**t I have ever read’
I looked up the survey. Guess who comes in dead last—–President Donald Trump.
This tells you something about how valid this survey is. As an alternative, listen to Prager’s 5 minute videos on the presidents, and then make up your own mind. Nothing worse than an academic that never lived outside their university bubble….
They don’t even realize how ridiculous they are.
It was created by Rabid Animal Operatives of The Democrat Communist Criminal Terrorist Organization of America and supported by Joey (The Chin) Bidino.
he ranks as the greatest imbecile for president . a damning representation of those that voted for him , 81 mill. so they tell us , said no one ever except the delusional . an empty suit puppet .
All too true except for the 81 million. God only knows how many millions of those votes were fraudulent and how many of Trump’s were ignored or destroyed.
And when Donald Trump gets 100 million votes and they can’t possibly cheat enough to win what will they say then?
It’s got me wondering whether dead people voting raises or lowers the average IQ of the Democrat voter. Hmmm…
The history of Revisionism, a great topic!!!
There needs to be a concerted movement to remove the death grip the Progressives/Democrats have on academia. Three things need to be done to activate this movement. 1) Initiate a comprehensive social media & new media propaganda campaign identifying the prejudiced hiring practices done by every major college/university, provide actual in classroom comments & indoctrination by Marxist professors, provide actual academic writings of college professors, and show actual ratio of left wing professors and conservative professor and major campuses. 2) Institute legislation in Congress that corrects the college hiring bias in favor of the left wing point of view – by giving academia a 1 year period to bring left and right professorships into balance or suffer elimination of all Federal funding. 3) Contact the donors to university endowments, and influence them to cut off their donations unless the campus hiring reflects a balanced ideological structure. The current status quo has led to the massive dumbing down of the student body, lowered academic standards and campus conduct, drastically infringed upon free speech, and promoted animosity and violence against people that disagree with the campus doctrine.
Theodore Roosevelt was a progressive. These leftists are REgressive.
Or we make congress cut them off monetarily. It will take a bit of time before their money runs out, then they’ll be on their own.
And perhaps tax their endowment as excessive profits just the way they do utility companies 🤔
Though some on the “right” like Pedro Gonzalez say that Reagan should be ranked near the bottom for gun control and the 1986 amnesty. What do you think?
in reality every president was flawed, it’s a pros and cons
I give some benefit of the doubt to Reagan who believed that the amnesty was a compromise, latter day compromisers like McCain who knew that any amnesty deal was a scam have no such defense
As far as gun control effectiveness tihinkChicago
As far as 86 amnesty, think bait and switch
Well said Mr Greenfield.
My point is that the revisionist history accelerated during Clinton’s administration with his wildly accepted infamous quote of, “It depends upon what one’s definition of is, is !
the more leftists take over our culture, the more they erase and distort what happened before
I remember the idea of ‘what will history reveal in the future’. I thought, yes the truth will be revealed in the end. But with the outlawing of books, although who reads books anymore since the internet is available. Huh, the internet.
“Obama is greater than Eisenhower”
Well, before Obama was POTUS he organized communities (I assume to support his idea of fundamental change) while Eisenhower was commanding the forces that defeated Nazi Germany in WWII.
“Biden is greater than Reagan”
This one is a bit personable to me. I was a Dem from early life till Ronald Reagan’s run for POTUS and I changed parties while living in TX, 1,000 miles from my family back in NC. I mention this just because they remained part of the Dem party. I must say if my Dad were alive today, I think he would not remain so.
As for LBJ, well his signature legislation, The Civil Rights Act, while well meaning at the time, seems less so today.
“This bill that we will sign today is not a revolutionary bill,” President Johnson argued. “It does not affect the lives of millions. It will not reshape the structure of our daily lives…
If one thinks that America is by definition evil, and needs to be destroyed (“fundamentally changed”), then yes, Biden is one of the greatest presidents, right up there with Obama.
That headline should have come with a spit take warning.
What I remember Bill Clinton for is his using Ehud Barak in Shepherdstown, W. Va., to try to have Israel commit national suicide by giving in to virtually all of Y. Arafat’s demands. The same Bill Clinton who claimed that Yitzhak Rabin was a mentor of sorts. The same Bill Clinton with the ethics of a used car dealer, and the morals of a rapist. The same Bill Clinton whose better half is Hillary. Ain’t karma a bitch?
Another superb essay from one of the finest minds of our day. Others would take a week to come up with it, but for him it’s one in dozens of such pieces written in a week.
thank you so much Mark
Yes, I agree. I have thought recently, ‘how does he write these many in-depth articles, besides interviews’ in a week? My favorite and highly esteemed journalist is William F. Buckley, Jr. You have replaced him in this generation.
Where might I find that?
Biden’s greatness is he is the first ventriloquist’s dummy (for the Great Narcissist Barack Hussein Osama) to ever serve as president. Next to him Alexandria Ocasio Cortez, Hank Johnson and Auntie Maxine Waters are MENSA members.
Democrats and the Left in general have always relied heavily on the inversion of reality.
c’mon man, this load of malarky is from “the onion” or “babylon bee”, right?
The question no one has asked yet is, who funds the American Political Science Association? Their survey results are so far off that they scream “agenda”. Biden a great president??? C’mon man…
”Is Biden really the 14th greatest president in American history?”
It seems almost certain that the culture war between the Left and America will end with the triumph of the Left.
Now if history is indeed written by the winners, then American history won’t be an exception. Or Biden’s place as 14th greatest president in American history is secured.
(And of course the “Russian Collusion” behind Trump’s 2016 victory will become a fact.)
If I had to guess on the idocy behind this nonsense, I would offer Scrips news. Have you ever watched their “news channel?” Seems everything wrong is the fault of “Climate change.” Dry year in California? Climate change
It was created by Operatives of The Democrat Communist Criminal Terrorist Organization of America and supported by Joey (The Chin) Bidino.
I really like Ulysses S. Grant.
He wouldn’t even have taken Biden to shine his shoes.
U.S Grant – Appomattox Lee surrender – History / https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-x7oqxheY9E
Reagan was good. He left a legacy.
Biden’s legacy? Ask a NYC cop…
It seems as if wokeness has infected everything, there is no other way to explain this insanity.
Biden – the first president ever ruled to be incompetent in an official document by his own administration – is the 14th best president? It doesn’t say much for their view of most of the other presidents.
Time to slaughter the leftist slime with the remarks in your incisive analysis.
Of all the articles and books I read about American Presidents, none of them were great by any standard to be considered great. Only Washington declared that the United States should never be involved in foreign wars. That was good advice, but unfortunately it was not to be when you consider all the wars we were involved in, especially those we started.
Biden wouldn’t qualify as remotely patriotic, let alone, pro-America. He wasn’t legitimately elected, but the democrat “machine” criminally placed him in the Whitehouse. These last 3+ years have been nothing short of destructive to our Constitutional Republic.
I have always wondered how Biden was elected over and over again. Delaware is very a very small state, with a lot of farmland, but the state hosts all or nearly all the financial, credit card corporations. Is there a correlation?
I wonder, should Robert E. Lee have been allowed to run, and if he had won, where would he stand in the list? He certainly was a lot more honorable than the thing in the WH now, or any other Democrat since Wilson. As for the senile geezer in the WH now, his most memorable legacy remains to be seen; forcing the 2-State solution on Israel, dividing Jerusalem, and removing our Embassy back to Tel Aviv. If he does that, God help us all.
Cough cough cough Kah-Hack Sorry all that Gushing and Mushing for Biden the Blunder makes me ill
Orwell proven right again!
The Democrats control the present and are attempting to control the past. And those who control the past, control the future.
Some people begin with a predetermined conclusion and then spend an inordinate amount of time and resources to make their “facts” support their conclusion, disregarding anything that doesn’t support that conculsion. Of late there have been far too many such with an awful lot of time on their hands and reams of paper all too eager to prove the most ridiculous concepts imaginable.
Anyone who draws such a conclusion is seriously delusional and beyond hope of help.
The same fools who trust NYT’s CNN
There is a lot to criticize FDR and Woodrow Wilson for, once one delves deeper into the history.
“Greatness” can be defined as something having a great effect, such as destroying the greatest nation on earth and enabling its greatest enemies. Greatness can manifest as empowering of the most base elements of a formerly civilized, lawful society to destroy civility and revert to the primitive, failed cultures of its diverse ancestry. In that sense, Joe Biden may be overtly the greatest, but behind the scenes, his daddy Ubama has shown us what true greatness is.
Those of us who lived during the Reagan years and the Reagan Revolution were loving our country, our military, our lives, our businesses, and we were thriving. America was great, nobody messed with us because they knew better. The cowards and the corruption we have in Washington today and those who live for their own greed and power will one day wake up to a terrible realization that they made the wrong decisions and didn’t stand up for what was once the Greatest Country on Earth, because we were One Nation Under God. Destroying America will also be the end of this world because once people without a conscience don’t stand up to evil, evil gets the upper hand.
DANG !!! Pass me some of what you’re smoking ! I wanna live in blissful ignorance too !